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The successful applicant will demonstrate successful experience as a developer and manager, and the ability to handle both the backend and the frontend of the website. So, essentially, you want four people to accept this job and split the salary 25% each? Also, love the (common) (mis-) usage of the future perfect tense. It’s actually “will have demonstrated”, but also, in...
Dec 31st
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Mind boggler.
katiebakes: Wait, that “Tonight’s Gonna be a Good Night” song is by THE BLACK EYED PEAS!?!?!??!?!?! I just baseline assumed it was Cobra Starship! WHAT IS GOING ON. This is somehow related to when I found out that the Liz Phair character that you all prattle on about was responsible for this. Worse, I assumed that BEP song was by a one-hit wonder group cranked out of whatever Eurotrashy...
Dec 31st
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Have you read the hamburger article yet? School lunch officials said they ultimately agreed to use the [AMMONIA!] treated meat [earlier referred to as “pink slime”] because it shaved about 3 cents off the cost of making a pound of ground beef. Take this as the best lesson in human behavior and economics you’ll get this decade. Realize that every complex business and...
Dec 31st
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…the election of a relatively mild-mannered former law professor instead of something closer to what our discourse deserved (and here I’m thinking of a hypothetical, rakish serial rapist with a hit reality show) Wait, I know exactly who you’re talking about… what’s his name… Actually, there’s, like, 3 of them…
Dec 31st
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why does mystery google always send me to formspring? Why does regualr Google always send me to Answers.com? Ask me anything
Dec 31st
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why did you put this on mystery google? i wanted a mission. i think we’re ment to be. Somebody set us up the bomb. Ask me anything
Dec 31st
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how old are you? **plucks gray hair** Ask me anything
Dec 31st
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im confused BRITNEY TAKE YOUR MEDS Ask me anything
Dec 31st
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Edward Cullen or Jacob Black? Serious stuff right here. Han Solo. Ask me anything
Dec 31st
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im confused.. what am i supposed to ask you? 42. Ask me anything
Dec 31st
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what is life Avenue B & E 10th Ask me anything
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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hulo cutie. Hulo is a Web site where you can watch new episodes of 30 Rock and The Office. I think. Ask me anything
Dec 31st
“Considering the ease with which a suicide bomber could stroll into a Starbucks...”
– Holman Jenkins:Two Cheers for Airport Security - WSJ.com (via skidder) Similarly, Homeland Security knows that you can easily kill 100 people who are about to get on planes just by setting off an explosive among the people who are waiting in line to be screened for explosives. And they have...
Dec 30th
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What sports Web site do you use (other than...
I can’t get through anything on tWWL without installing an adblocker or something, they allow these Flash abominations to come in and freeze my computer for 2 minutes. Seriously, fuck that. I need a good alternative, and I have no idea which to use.
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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HOMICIDE
natashavc: Oh hey. So this one time in DC I, by pure chance of looking out my window to, uh ponder(?), I saw a man get shot and die outside of my apartment. It was snowing — a natural phenomenon that above anything else cripples me with anxiety and homesickness. I didn’t know what to do except grab a blanket and take the elevator down 16 FLOORS and try to run to the guy and ___ ? The...
Dec 30th
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What does mystery google do? It seems to be a Google frontend that replaces your query with obscene search terms. Because you ran out of things to do on the Internet, I guess… Ask me anything
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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She didn't take the candy, eh?
tylercoates: meaghano: A man in Times Square just asked me if I lost my family. No sir I am an adult THANKS!
Dec 30th
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See, at least one post got rejected from the Awl. →
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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ninety9: I’m thinking too many of the decade retrospectives were written by people who were not adults when it began. Who else are you going to not-pay to write? I think 1980 is the cutoff for “my time is worth something.” Actually, many/most of the writers meet that criteria, and I was just telling Carolyn today how it’s a shame all that writing goes unpaid (even for...
Dec 29th
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Attention New York Giants Fans
50 days until pitchers and catchers!
Dec 29th
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“I couldn’t but help come away from the Monday-night session with the...”
– Nope, this isn’t about secular interactive media. But…
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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"Look at how devastating Mommy's youth was!"
katiebakes: So is someone going to turn all these End of the 00’s on The Awl into a book or what? Maybe someone with a Kickstarter account? Because if not, I am just going to print them all out and use the office binding machine to create my own Treasured Keepsake. This will be better than those copies of Fortune from the 1930s that brought us so much joy. Your office binding machine can...
Dec 29th
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Shut down the borders to radicalized rich...
ericmortensen: suddenly: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said there should have been swift action after a prominent Nigerian alleged that his son was becoming radicalized. “It seems to me that when this happens, the person should go automatically on the no-fly list,” she said. “I’d rather, in the interest of protecting people,...
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
Lower East Side Reborn (as a Fat Baby) - BlackBook →
My most recent article on Blackbookmag.com
Dec 29th
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Guys, this is really important to me. →
Dec 29th
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Hey Tumblr, did you change the codebase at all...
CHANGE IT BACK, SLACKERS
Dec 29th
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Natasha's like "Roadhouse" this week. She's just...
Dec 29th
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In-flight WiFi, Bitches!
In-flight WiFi, Bitches!
Dec 29th
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From The Inbox
Subject: Brian, get a part-time job today Okay, mom. Guuuhhhhh!
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Why does everyone seem to love Moe T. so much? Easy… She used to work at American Apparel. Ask me anything
Dec 29th
blocksonblox: I saw Up in the Air tonight. All in all, the film was ok but there was a piece of it that got to me that I don’t think the writer was getting at. A big part of the movie was that George Clooney’s character’s job was to fire people. All this firing and people losing jobs thing got me thinking about America’s current state of affairs when it comes to the job market. Every day there...
Dec 29th
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david: Anonymous asked: How did you get such a hot girlfriend? Without the interwebs you’d prob be a virg Not true.
Dec 29th
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“Even minor characters on “The Hills” make more per episode than you...”
– The End of the 00s: The Most American Person of the Decade, by Kaila Hale-Stern | The Awl *SNORT* *giggle*
Dec 29th
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Should anyone take offense to the word "tiresome"
It mostly refers to situations where I am paying to see a repetitious and unremarkable form of art at a venue that is not at all comfy or charming. Think comedy shows, dance parties, and burlesque. Stuff you all wouldn’t do anyway (since 2004). I used to do that 5 times a week, no wonder I got sick of making time for it and paying retail liquor prices for the privilege. Sometimes, when I...
Dec 28th
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“One of the problems is newspapers fired so many journalists and turned them...”
– Media consultant Alan Mutter. NYTimes: Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites http://s.nyt.com/u/AMx (via adamiss) I can’t tell if this is ironic or not.
Dec 28th
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